The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-01-27
He Continues to Islander Us.

Apologizing, gentle reader, for again
mentioning to ears polite that disreputa-
BILE thing, the Times Union, we remark
that we are obliged to do it, because
when ruffian strikes you are compelled
to knock him down. That journalistic
outlaw strikes again with a rehash of pre-
vious falsifcatlons about the printing sec
ton, and being afraid to assail members
of the Convention for not adopting it, at
tacks the FLoRIDIAN for not printing what
was not adopted. 1t sotU be noted that
the .~ho7~ vF,h..:~ afthn Tr.,,oo TT~:o..'. vc.1
sifcdtions IS built upon the basis Of its
initial falsehood, WHICH WAS that the Sec
ton 'oas made part ofthe Constitution,
and on that foundation lie 1t has contin-
aled to base its assaults on the FLoRID1AN
for not printing it,
Why the Convention did not adopt it
the FLoRIDIAN does not know. The pro-
prietors of the FLoRIDIAN thought it was
adopted until reading the proof of the
perfected Constitution, after the close of
the Convention. They knew it was in
PRODUCED and passed first reading and
supposed that it had gone through the
usual course to final adoption. The ex.
acting labor of the printing made it i'm
possible for one of the proprietors to read
all the proof; SO they worked alternate
nights on the reading, and employees &C.
casionally relieved them, and neither one
would necessarily know what the other
read, and whether that section or any
other section was dropped by the Con-
vention. If the Convention had adopted
it, and the printers omitted it, that Con-
vention of lO8 members and its clerical
employees would certainly have noted the
omission in the days Journal of proceed
ings, which was up for correction in reg
ular order of business the next morning.
and copies of which were on all their
desks. But the miserable slande rer, who
has made the Times Union so disreputa-
BILE, charges that it was adopted and that
we suppressed it. How long will the
public sustain his paper that he may con-
tinue to stab regulations with libellous
pen?
But why follow the contemplate fellow
in his falsehoods? What do the state
ments of one upon whom the lie has been
so often proved amount to? Who will
give credence to the assertions of one
whose falsity even the Constitutional
Convention of Florida was forced to take
cognizance of, and to denounce in resolu-
tionsp Those resolutions denounced
him for making in San editorial " an un-
true and dishonorable charge"
without foundation in fact and is utterly
untrue" See Journal of Convention,
page s7s. And it is an equally untrue
and dishonorable charge, without founda-
ton in fact and utterly untrue, that he
now makes against the FLoRID1AN.
What wretched spectacle does this
shameless creature present! Branded
with falsehood in various instances, but
recently condemned by almost the entire
press Of the State, he still keeps up bis
spiteful personalities and silly and ego
tistical chatter about his "great daily of
the State" its services to the people of
Florida, etc. Look, people of Florida, at
the editor of your "grest Florida daily!"
Compare this chap, the writer of the Old
Timer Letter" with those noble gentlemen
who edit the really great dailies of
Southern sister States-say with Estill,
Of the Savannah Nsscs; with Dawson, of
the Charleston Nesos and Courier; with
Grady Of the Atlantis Constit,sion-and
others! But no comparison can be made,
for comparison proper must be in degree
Of kind; the snake cannot be compared
with the eagle, nor the vulture with the
ion-nor Jones with Esr1LL ct al. The